Heater for brooders.



N0- 799,199. PATENTED SEPT. 12, 1905. 0. P. SHOEMAKBR.

HEATER FOR BROODERS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11.1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HEATER FOR BROODERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 12, 1905.

Application filed June 11, 1904. Serial No. 212,157.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LORLANDO P. SHOEMAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clay Center, in the county of Clay and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Heater for Brooders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to heaters designed to be used in connection with brooders; and it has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and operation of this class of devices and to provide means whereby the temperature may be regulated and controlled and whereby foul air may be removed from the brooding-chamber.

Vith these and other ends in view, which will readily appear as the nature of the in vention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, and par; ticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that the right is reserved to any changes, alterations, and modifications to which recourse may be had within the scope of t-heinvention and without departing from the spirit or sacriticing the efficiency of the same.

In said drawings, Figure- 1 is a sectional view of a brooder equipped with a heater embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view through the heater.

Corresponding parts in both ligures are indicated throughout by similar characters of reference.

The invention has been shown as employed in connection with a brooder 11, having a hoverer-chamber12 and an overlying heatingchamber 13, in which latter the heater is arranged. Said heater consists of a drum 5', having an inlet-pipe T extendingthrongh and terminating adjacent to the inner side of an end wall of said drum. This inlet-pipe consists of an elbow, the inlet branch of which is adapted to be disposed vertically above the chimney of a suitably-supported heater, such as a lamp 8, for the purpose of receiving the heated air from said heater and discharging it into the interior of the drum. The latter is also provided with a discharge-pipe 9', which is disposed at right angles to the drum and enters the latter vertically from above through a sleeve or collar 9, there being extended transversely from and at right angles to the drum a pipe 1%, arranged in parallel alinement with the discharge-pipe 9. The pipe or duct 14, which extends downward into the hovercrchamber 12, is composed of a pair of telescopically adjustable sect-ions, whereby its lower open receiving end may be adjusted toward and from the bottom of the receptacle, while the discharge-pipe 9, the upper end of which is provided with a cap 15, is longitudinally movable for projecting itslowcr receiving end a greater or lesser distance into the upper end of the pipe 1%. It is apparent under this construction that the heating medium will upon entering the drum travel therethrough for entrance into the discharge-pipe 9' and that by adjusting the latter for its inner end to extend a greater or lesserdistance into the pipe 11 the rapidity of the escape of the heating medium from the drum, and consequently the degree to which the latter will be heated, may be readily regulated. It is further to be noted that as the heated air passes off from the drum through the discharge-pipe 9 the latter will also draw off, through the pipe 11, the dead impure air from the hoverer-chamber, thereby effectually ventilating the latter.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that a device is produced which is well adapted for the attainmentof the ends in view. The construction is simple and the device may be produced at a moderate expense. It will also be seen that this improved heating device is adapted to be used in com'iection with incubators as well as brooder-s.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is----- 1. A heater for broodors com prising a d rum provided at one end with an inlet-pipe having an elbow and provided near its opposite end with an adjustable exit-pi pe, and an adjustable vei'itilating-pipe disposed in alinement with said exit-pipe.

2. A heater for brooders comprising a drum provided at one end With an inlet-pipe having an elbow and provided near its opposite end l my own I have hereto affixed my signature in with an adjustable outlet-pipe, and an adj ustthe presence of tWo Witnesses.

able telescoping ventilating-pipe; said outlet ORLANDO SHOEMAKER pipe being axially adjustable Within the ven- WVitne-sses: tilating-pipe. JOHN M. JoNns,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as L. F. FRYAR. 

